Month: May 2025

The best paid CEO in the US is not in Apple or Tesla. It is a complete stranger of a company that you had not heard

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When we think of the CEOs Better paid on the planet Surely we repeat a small group of people at the controls of some of the great technological corporations that dominate the present. We would not be unchanged in figures such as Tim Cook, Satya Nadella or Mark Zuckerberg, but none of them approaches the emoluments received by the Jafazo best paid in the United States. The curious thing about this story is that you have not heard in your life or the CEO, nor the company it directs. A complete stranger at the top. In an environment, that of the great corporations, dominated by omnipresent names such as Tim Cook, Elon Musk or Jensen Huang, the title of the best paid CEO of 2024 did not fell in any of them, but in an executive practically unknown to the general public: James Anderson. As? Yes, the man is in charge of COHERENTa technological company based in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, dedicated to the manufacture of network and laser systems. Anderson received a total remuneration of 101.5 million dollarssurpassing by a wide margin to figures such as Brian Niccol de Starbucks or Satya Nadella de Microsoft. Its impressive salary package positions it as the only CEO of the Ranking of Equila (which analyzed the 100 companies with income greater than one billion dollars) to exceed the barrier of the nine digits in compensation, in a year in which the average salary of an CEO reached a record of 25.6 million dollars. The stock market effect and a distortion. Although Anderson has a base salary of little more than one millionits incorporation to Coherent in June 2024 made its remuneration in cash be limited to only $ 81,538, along with a signature bonus of half a million. The rest, 99.4% of its emoluments, came from a Actions package whose value was shot unexpectedly. The reason: the enthusiasm of the market after the announcement of its appointment catapulted the price of coherent shares, thus generating an inflationary effect on the value of its shareholding concessions. The company, in Your proxy reporteven recognized this paradox: the actions were valued using a 30 -day mobile average that did not reflect the posterior stock market explosion, which artificially amplified the amount of the package. In addition, the payment included compensation for the loss of deferred actions accumulated during its previous stage in Semiconductor Laticewhere it was considered key in the exponential growth of the stock market value. The Top 10 of 2024 Domino effect. The impact of his Latetice departure and his arrival in Coherent was immediate. On the same day of the ad, the market value of Latice fell 15.5%which represented a loss of 1.6 billion dollars, while Coherent shares rose 22.9%, adding about 2,000 million in stock market capitalization. Since then, Coherent has maintained sustained growth, while Latice has retreated 34%. To all this, we must add that Anderson, Electrical Engineer With titles of MIT, Purdue and the University of Minnesota, it has a proven history: During their management in Lattice, the actions rose more than 875%, exceeding by broad margin to the S&P 500. In other words: its reputation as a silent transformer seems to have become an asset as valuable as any product line. The era of actions as salary. In the background, Anderson’s case illustrates a Dominant trend In contemporary executive compensation: retribution in shares represents near the 73% of the average total salary of the ceos, According to equilationwith a 41% increase compared to the previous year. This form of remuneration, linked to stock market performance rather than immediate results, has allowed to justify very high compensations, even in companies where the benefits do not always accompany. For example, Summit Singh, Chewy CEO, He received 35.1 million in 2024 Although the actions of the company 60% fellthe worst performance of the entire list. In contrast, Jensen Huang, from Nvidia (the firm with Best stock yield of the year, with an increase of 215%) received 34.1 million, although Your personal fortune It is estimated at 92,000 million thanks to its shareholding of 3.5%. Map of “tech” salaries a year earlier Benefits, security and inequality. There is much more, of course. In fact, in addition to wages and actions, many CEOs enjoy luxurious additional benefits. They counted in Barrons That Tim Cook, for example, received more than $ 780,000 in personal security services and another 655,000 on private flights. Starbucks, meanwhile, provides its CEO flights exclusively in private jets. Plus: This type of expenses has become more common due to growing concerns for security, especially after UNITEDHEALTH GROUP CEO Murder in a street in New York. In fact, a parallel study of equilation shows that almost a third of the S&P 500 companies already offer some type of executive protection, in this case a 28% increase Regarding 2023. The enigma Elon Musk. Yes, you may have realized that The richest man The planet has not appeared much until now. Elon Musk, although absent from the ranking because Tesla He has not presented Even your proxy report is still a key figure. Its previous ten -year compensation plan, approved in 2018 and currently valued in about 70,000 millionwas canceled twice By a delaware judge and now awaits a resolution in the state Supreme Court. This episode, together with the growing disconnection between real performance and executive remuneration, has fed criticism about the lack of effective controls in corporate wages. As Dean Baker summed upco -founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, “there is no real control over what is paid to the CEOS”, adding that many are not extraordinary, although they are paid as if they were. Citing these days, Warren Buffett, I remembered: “I try to invest in companies so good that even an idiot can direct them, because sooner or later, someone will do it.” Reflection of an era. In summary, at a time where salary inequality and wealth concentration generate increasingly intense debates, Anderson’s story It represents both … Read more

Marc Murtra and his 180º turn compared to Álvarez-Pallete

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Telefónica’s price It has just reached 4.5 eurosits highest level in three years. Just when the new executive president, Marc Murtra, turns his first hundred days at the helm of the Teleco. Why is it important. From the appointment of Murtra in January, the revaluation of Telefónica exceeds 16%. A stock market resurrection that confirms market confidence in the strategic review designed by the former president of Indra to save a telecus whose value 57% had collapsed during Álvarez-Pallete’s mandate. The Catalan engineer has achieved in three months what Telefónica had been trying for years: to recover the favor of investors. And he has done so by executing a very different vision than his predecessor. The panoramic. Murtra has identified two existential problems for Telefónica: Latin American ruin and the ballast of being perceived as a traditional telecus in a technological world. In Latin America, the subsidiaries have weighed the results with millionaire losses: 1,327 million in Argentina, 872 million in Peru (which entered into the bankruptcy of creditors) and 437 million in Chile. The rhythm of divestment has accelerated brutally: Argentina sold for 1,190 million to the Clarín group, Colombia on sale to Millicom for 370 million, and Peru practically given away for 900,000 euros to Integra Tec. The turning point. While leaving the continent that became a financial bleeding for the company – Brazil on the margin -, Murtra has positioned Telefónica as the protagonist in the European consolidation of the sector, raising the debate from the business to the geopolitical. His Inaugural speech at the Mobile World Congress From Barcelona he went straight to the heart of Brussels: “It is time for large European telecommunications companies to consolidate and grow to create technological capacity.” Between the lines. The strategy has two pillars: End the Latin American expansion (except Brazil, which is still profitable) and focus efforts on European markets with greater profitability and legal certainty. Transform Telefónica from a traditional telecus to a technological company, taking advantage of the fact that almost half of its business income (43%) They already come from non -traditional services. With Emilio Gayo as CEO, the duo is creating a balance between operational execution (Gayo) and strategic vision (Murtra) that is working. It is no accident that Gayo has achieved Telefónica España growing in income, Ebitda and customers For the first time since 2018. And now what. Analysts expect Telefónica to reduce their investments in fiber infrastructure to focus more on technological aspects, freeing Indra from this mission so that focus on the defense and aerospace sector. Meanwhile, the market expects important operations, with Vodafone Spain and Digi as possible acquisition objectives to strengthen its position in Spain first … and in Europe later. The turn. The exceptional thing about this change is that Telefónica is about to give Sorpasso to herself: Become a technology services company above Teleco. This turning point where more than half of its business turnover will proceed with technological services, not voice or data, is close. His new narrative as a European tractor is being well received by a market that had been waiting for a pragmatic, clear and decisive turn. The times of the global expansion without control have been left behind. For retailers who have been seeing their heritage for years, this change of course is the arrival of spring. One that can reverde the laurels, even if it is a bit, of the old Matildes. In Xataka | The EU has spent years fiercely fighting monopolies. Teresa Ribera has other plans for telecos Outstanding image | Telefónica

Every month that passes, Tesla’s breakdown is greater. And that begins to be a real problem for the company

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We begin to have sales data in European countries. The acea data will arrive in the last week of May but, little by little, we are knowing sales in the main European markets. And, once again, the data for Tesla are dramatic. It was expected. It was almost waiting. With each new quarter that begins, Tesla lowers its sales. The company has long followed a registration strategy that leads to enroll a greater number of vehicles in March, June, September and December. Consequently, January, April, July and October, when the quarter begins, pays the consequences with a good hangover. Spain. The data in our country confirms it. In January the brand already gave evident symptoms that something did not march well. Neither the Tesla Model 3 nor the Tesla Moda and sneaked into the 10 best -selling electric cars of our country which gave an idea that the company had cars stored in stock After a final push in 2024 to make up the photo of the year. Now, three months later, Tesla Model 3 loses the first position again. In March he had recovered ground (and is still the best selling car in what we have been) but the Renault 5 and Kia Ev3 They have overcome them again. Right now, Tesla is leaving in our country more than 16% fall. The damage in the case of Tesla Model 3 is lower. It is 9% compared to the accumulated of January-April of 2024 and it is not a bad figure if we take into account that the Tesla Model and is falling 25.46%. The electric SUV was its best selling car and right now it has placed almost half of the units that a model 3 in setback. Still worse. The data They are still worse Out of Spain. Our country does not cease to have a relatively small electric market, so the oscillations are more evident and represented by larger numbers. However, the fall of Tesla in the main markets are striking. In April 2025, the following falls are counted with data from Bloomberg: Sweden: -80.7% Netherlands: -73.8% Portugal: -33% France: -59.4% Germany: -46% United Kingdom: -62% In April, the company only grew in Norway and Italy. In the accumulated of the year, Tesla has fallen 60% in Germany, more than 50% in the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark and the only reason why it barely falls in the United Kingdom is because They could have diverted cars from other markets with a right -hand flyer to the islands. In a very bad time. So far we have been talking about the Tesla Model and Juniper hangover. The electric SUV update has undoubtedly slowed the sales of the new car. Because the production has reduced, there is a stock of the outgoing model to which it has had to leave and because there will be clients who have waited for aesthetic update to buy the most affordable models (it arrived exclusively wearing the most expensive option). The problem is that after a year in which the electric car noticed the first symptoms of wear, Europe has put the direct With this technology. We still have no official data from the entire continent but it is palpable that the number of electric cars in what we have been over is higher than 2024. The electric car market share has gone from 12% to 15.1% in the continent and have registered 412,997 units for 333,428 last year in the first quarter. We are at a growth of 23.9%. The competition squeezes. That means that competition begins to eat ground to Elon Musk’s company. Every day that passes is market share inside the electric car that is being left in Europe. With data from the first quarter of 2024, in Europe Tesla has gone from 2.4% market share of 1.3%. A 45%drop has been left. Volkswagen It has become the Super Survents of electric cars. After many problems with a Volkswagen id His secret has been the sale of the Great Electric Berlina. But, in addition, to these sales we must add those of Skoda, Cupra and Audiwhich improves the general photography of the group. At the same time, Kia Ev3 has entered the market very force And the Renault 5 is being a sales success in these first measures of the year, especially in France. A bump? As we say, it remains to know if what we have in front of Tesla is a bump, if it is going through a bad time that will remain as mere anecdote or if it really begins to have problems to place their cars. The arrival of Tesla Model and Juniper should end these sensations but the doubts begin to emerge. Because although in our test we count that the Electric SUV of Tesla remains a product that is above Of the competition, the truth is that there are more and more alternatives that move in about 30,000 euros and there Tesla is missing. It seems urgent for the company that can put a more affordable electric car on the market. Begins to be urgent. Seen what last numbers presentedfor the company it is urgent to lift the flight. The company has opted in recent months that it would begin to generate money with its autonomous driving systems, either with Robotaxis or with Sales to third parties. A commitment to which they have not taken revenues yet. At the same time, sales figures are not being expected. For the first time, in 2024 Tesla did not sell more cars than the previous year. Start worrying about 2025, just when competition You need to sell more cars electric And we have no 25,000 euros car Not one cheaper version of the current Model 3 or Model Y. The perspectives, of course, are not the best. Photo | Xataka In Xataka | Tesla begins to discover what happens when you lose your competitive advantage: its benefits have collapsed 71%

The US has become the great “donor”

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In recent months we have proven to what extent the commercial policy of the United States affects the rest of the world (and vice versa). The threat of a commercial war between Europe and the North American country has been markedly diluted but has made us reconsider the role that international trade plays in our daily actions. Because this affects details that sometimes we would not suspect. The United States is the main exporter of medical products in the world, something that may not be so surprising. This is true if we talk about medical equipment, but It is also If we talk about something as particular as Blood plasma. Because yes, this key component of our blood also thickens international accounting data in some countries. First of all, perhaps it is convenient to clarify what is exactly plasma. Blood plasma is essentially the liquid part of the blood. In this liquid where red blood cells, leukocytes or white blood cells, and platelets are suspended. The plasma It is mainly composed of water, proteins such as immunoglobulins, coagulation and albumin factors, in addition to salts that exert electrolytes. We can obtain blood plasma through donations in two ways. One, through plasma donations (plasmapheresis). In this process, blood is extracted to the patient, blood from which the plasma is separated and removed at the same time that the rest of the liquid components are returned to the donor. Plasma can also be obtained from conventional blood donations. According to Explain the Transfusion Center of the Community of Madridthe plasma obtained from conventional blood donations is enough to meet all transfusion needs of patients. However, at least in Spain, the plasma extracted by this route is not enough to produce hemoderivates from the proteins present in the plasma or PDMP (PLASMA-DERIVED Medicinal Products), important in treatments not related to blood or plasma transfusions. Where there is lack, there is business. And this is example the United States. During the last yearsblood plasma has represented around 2.5% of exports in this country. Although the pandemic significantly limited the availability of this vital fluid in the North American country, in 2022 plasma exports They were 2.69%. And this is due to a huge rhythm of collection. According to A study Posted in 2023 in the magazine Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy, about 67% of plasma volume collected in the world was obtained in the US. In contrast, Europe contributes about 14%. Interestingly, Europe is the largest plasma supplier recovered (extracted from complete blood donations). Money issue? The disparate situation on each sides of the “puddle” has led some to consider the compensation model prevailing in Europe. The reason is that, In the USpaying for blood plasma is perfectly legal, while in the countries of our environment, this possibility is more limited. In Europe the idea of ​​non -enrichment from the human body and its parts prevails, a position also defended by the World Health Organization. This does not exclude payments in some contexts or Nor does it guarantee Transparency in the legislation of all European surroundings countries. The debate on whether this is the best model has been open for some years. “The EU legal framework for blood and blood components was not developed with the need for an increase in collection of plasma in mind ”, defended a couple of years ago Maarten van Baelen, executive director of Plasma Protein Therapeutics Association (PPTA) Europe, in Declarations collected by Politic. “A growing need for plasma medicines and a growing dependence on the US plasma requires a change in policy to face how we collect and increase plasma collection in Europe.” For others, the payment for donations has a difficult ethical lace: it is common that the idea of ​​paying for an organ as a liver or an eye is uncomfortable, but is.how or where to draw the limit? It is a question that, as long as we are not able to answer in a consensual way, can limit our If someone might seem predisposed to defend the existence of this type of market would be economists. Because also for these there is some debate. On the blog and homonymous book FreakonomiksStephen Dubner and Steven Levitt considered this issue. They did it by mentioning two studies with diverse resigades but not necessarily opposite. One of them, published in 1970 by Richard Titmuss, in which a counterintuitive effect was observed, that payments not only did not contribute to improve donations, but rather on the contrary. He Second studymore recent, published in 2013 in Sciencenoted that the rewards did work, although these rewards They did not have to be monetary: The study also contemplated forms of compensation such as free days or gift checks. In Xataka | The heart of a 58 -year -old man has just made history: pumps blood with a titanium armor and magnetic levitation Image | Lucas Oliveira

The Tech Week arrives at Amazon. These are five of the best offers in teles, VR glasses, projectors and more

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Before confirming if this year there will be a new Prime Day 2025 (Something that would not surprise us), Amazon has decided to launch a new campaign oriented, in this case, to technological products. During the so -called Tech Week We can find some cheapest devices, especially in relation to televisions, projectors and the like. Yes indeed, The campaign will end on May 13 unless the stocks of a certain product are exhausted. LG OLED42C44LA by 779.90 eurosa good TV with OLED screen that is compatible with Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision technologies. Htc lives pro 2 full kit by 799 eurosa complete kit to make the leap to virtual reality with very complete glasses. Epson EF-21W by 689.99 eurosa laser projector with Google TV operating system. LG 86NANO81T6A by 1,049.90 eurosa screen with a screen of no less than 86 inches. Sandisk Extreme Pro by 50.09 eurosa microSDXC card with 512 GB storage capacity. LG OLED42C44LA One of the best offers of Amazon’s Tech Week campaign is found on a LG TV. Specifically we talk about the LG OLED42C44LAa Smart TV OLED with 42 -inch screen that has dropped to the 779.90 euros. In addition to its screen, it stands out for being compatible with Dolby Vision, HDR10 and Dolby Atmos. The voice assistant also integrates Alexa And it comes with FilmMaker mode (for films and series) and with NVIDIA G-SYNC or AMD FREESYNC (for video games). LG OLED42C44LA (OLED, 42 inches) * Some price may have changed from the last review Htc lives pro 2 full kit Make the leap to VR glasses It’s nothing cheap, but if you have been wanting to do it for a while and looking for a good price, Htc lives pro 2 In its full kit configuration it is at Amazon at its minimum historical price and can be purchased for 799 euros. The glasses come with dual LCD panels that offer a Resolution of 2,448 x 2,448 pixels per eye. They integrate headphones and have Bluetooth and USB-C connectivity. The kit includes glasses, controls and two Station 2.0 base. * Some price may have changed from the last review Epson EF-21W The same goes for projectors, especially with those with laser technology. Normally we find some somewhat exorbitant prices – generally near (or more) of 1,000 euros – but during the Amazon tech week we have the Epson EF-21W by 689.99 eurosthe minimum historical price of the store. The EPSON EF-21W is a compact laser projector that offers an image projection of Up to 150 inches with Full HD resolution. It stands out for its Google TV operating system, but it also does it because it is compatible with HDR10, integrates speakers and has automatic Keystone correction and Chromecast. In addition, it includes a USB-A, Bluetooth and HDMI port. * Some price may have changed from the last review LG 86NANO81T6A On the other hand, if what you are looking for is a huge television for the living room, but you do not want to spend a fortune, Amazon has a very good price to the LG 86NANO81T6Aa Nanocell Smart TV with screen of no less than 86 inches. This screen also offers a 4K resolution, 120 Hz refreshment rate, HDR10 compatibility and includes filmMaker mode and 10 more image configuration modes. Its price is in this case 1,049.90 euros. On the other hand, its operating system is webos 24, includes the multipant function To see several contents at the same time – useful on such large screens – integrates the voice assistant Alexa And it comes with four HDMI ports: one of them is HDMI EARC and another is HDMI 2.1. LG 86NANO81T6A (86 inches) * Some price may have changed from the last review Sandisk Extreme Pro If you need a good microSD card, during the Tech Week we can also find several offers – some better than others. The most interesting for its value for money is Sandisk Extreme Pro of 512 GBsince it has dropped to the 50.09 euros in what is the minimum historical price of the store. This microSDXC card offers a reading speed of up to 200 Mbps and a writing speed up to 140 Mbps. It is a class A2 card, it comes with an SD adapter and it is resistant to different temperatures, water, blows and even x -rays. Sandisk Extreme Pro (512GB) * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Amazon and buying (header), LG, HTC, Epson, Sandisk In Xataka | Best televisions in quality price. Which to buy and seven recommended 4K 4K In Xataka | Best home film projectors. Which to buy and five recommended models from 299 to 18,000 euros

Baidu believes to have the key and has registered it in a new patent

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The idea of ​​talking with our pets has been feeding the collective imaginary. And although we continue to maintain a conversation with a dog or a cat in the style of Doctor Dolittleartificial intelligence (AI) begins to explore a much more realistic land: to interpret how they feel. The last sample comes from China: BAIDU has requested a patent proposed by a system capable of translating the emotional state of animals into understandable language for humans. An emotional translator, not a talk with your dog. The application, submitted by the company to the State Office of Intellectual Property of China raises a system that does not intend to translate barking or meowed in human phrases as if they were words, but to identify relevant signs of animal behavior (such as voice, gestures or physiological changes) to estimate its emotional state and express it in natural language. In other words: it’s not about talking to animals, but better understanding what they feel. As Sina collectsthe key is to build an emotional interpretation channel that allows humans to react to what animals, obviously, cannot express in words. The difference with respect to other existing tools is in the depth of the analysis. Most initiatives in this field focus on the superficial interpretation of sounds or expressions, but do not capture complex emotions. Baidu’s proposal aspires to break that limit. Artificial intelligence with multimodal approach. The system key is in its integral approach. According to the technical summary of the patent, the method relies on technologies such as automatic learning, deep learning and natural language processing. These three pillars allow to process large volumes of data and extract relevant patterns in real time. Innovation is how the different signs collected are combined: vocalizations, postures, behavioral variations and physiological data. All this is analyzed jointly to avoid errors that usually occur when it is based on a single source. The ultimate goal is to achieve a more precise emotional reading, with less margin of ambiguity. Applications in Care, Conservation and Animal Study. The potential use of this technology goes far beyond the domestic sphere. According to the document, it could be used to improve the welfare of pets, adjusting their care and company based on their mood. But it could also have an important role in scientific research, helping biologists to better understand the behavior of rare or endangered species. In reservations and conservation centers, these types of tools could become an ally to anticipate states of stress or discomfort before they manifest themselves in an evident way, facilitating the task of the staff. It is not yet a product. As with any patent, its publication does not imply that technology is available or becoming a commercial product. In fact, South China Morning post points That the evaluation process can be extended for more than a year, and Baidu has not announced concrete plans to develop it in the form of a device or service. For now, what the company poses is a technical basis that opens a new chapter in the relationship between humans and animals. One in which, perhaps, we can begin to understand more precisely what those who cannot talk to us with words feel. Images | Stephen Yu | Werzk Luuuuuu In Xataka | Loneliness is already a matter of public health. We have more and more evidence that animals help us to placate it

Pegasus will have to pay 167 million for damages

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Large technological ones presume to shield their ecosystems, but the reality is more complex: there are no infallible systems. And if there is an expert company in finding the right crack, That is nso Groupthe Israeli firm responsible for spy software Pegasus. Now, goal has achieved a historical judicial victory after six years of litigation: a federal jury He has condemned to pay more than 167 million dollars in punitive damagein addition to others $ 444,000 in compensatoryfor affecting WhatsApp users with their espionage tool. Goal declared the war to Pegasus. The demand was filed in 2019after discovering a massive attack that took advantage of a critical vulnerability in the WhatsApp call system. The Pegasus spyware could be installed on the devices through a simple call, even if the user did not respond. From there, it was able to activate the microphone and the camera, access messages, emails, locations and all types of sensitive data of the device. Suspicious infection attempts collected from the phone of a goal (Citizen Lab) The investigation was carried out in collaboration with Citizen Lab, that helped identify the possible affected: More than 1,400 users, including journalists, human rights and diplomatic activists. WhatsApp says that it directly notified each of these people and displayed urgent security patches. It was the first time that an encrypted messaging provider brought a private company to the courts to use espionage tools against its platform. Secrets that came to light. During the judicial process, NSO Group was forced to admit something that had been avoiding confirming: that his software is capable of silently compromising “the entire content” of a telephone. Pegasus can be infiltrated both in iOS and Android using different vectors – including zero day exploits, browsers and messaging services – and once installed, communicates with external servers to send the data. The trial forced, for the first time, to high positions to declare under oath. It was exposed how its salary surveillance system works, which operates as a service sold to governments and agencies. In addition, Meta made it clear that WhatsApp was not the only objective of NSO: its infrastructure was used to attack other services, and its activity affected users in at least 20 countries, according to Citizen Lab. Pegasus, in fact, it can compromise other applications encrypted as a signal, which expands the scope of the threat. The verdict that marks a precedent. As we say, the decision of the recently announced jury forces NSO to pay 167 million dollars for punitive damage and more than $ 444,000 for additional dollars for compensatory damages. It is the first judicial judgment in the United States that holds a Spyware company for the illegal use of its tools against technological platforms and civil users. Meta has not hesitated to point out this movement as an important advance for privacy and digital safety, and believes that the sentence acts as a deterrent for the entire spy software industry. Apple also tried to take them to trial. Apple presented its own demand against NSO Group in November 2021. He claimed that the company had used the Forcentry Exploit to compromise Apple devices through a manipulated identification system. The objective: install pegasus without user knowledge. The company solicitated a court order that prohibited the use of its software and services by NSO. However, it transpired that last year Apple decided to withdraw from the case. According to the motion presented before the Courtcontinuing with the process was a risk: they feared that confidential information about their threat intelligence system could be exposed. Apple argued that the current environment – more fragmented and with malicious actors more diverse than when the lawsuit was filed – made the potential benefits of the trial no longer compensate for safety risks for its users. Images | Boliviainteligent In Xataka | WhatsApp the privacy seemed pump proof. Until a state prosecutor tried to erase incriminating messages

When Spacex suffered his worst incident, Elon Musk blamed a sniper of the competition. The FBI had to intervene

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On the morning of September 1, 2016, Spacex suffered one of the most cautious and controversial incidents in its history. A Falcon 9 rocket that was vertical on the launch platform Suddenly exploded With the Israeli satellite A Amos-6 aboard. Elon Musk accused the competition. A violent explosion. It was one of the first times that Spacex operated the Falcon 9 rocket with cryogenic propelants, a technique that consists in superfrging the fuel and oxidant to maximize its performance. Before the launch, Spacex had planned a static ignition test, a routine procedure in which engines are tested with the rocket anchored to the platform, but everything was twisted eight minutes before ignition. A violent explosion transformed what was a rocket into a huge fireball. The payload was shot. Mark Zuckerberg’s anger. The AMOS-6 satellite was not any load. With a cost of 200 million dollars, he had a powerful customer: Mark Zuckerberg. Goal, then Facebook, had reached an agreement to provide Free Internet Access in Africa Thanks to the satellite. After the explosion, Zuck He publicly expressed A “deep disappointment” for the rocket explosion, comments that did not sit well in Spacex, where morality was on the ground. According to Ars Techcnicathis incident was one of the points of origin of the bad relationship between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, which years later would lead the first to eliminate Spacex and Tesla’s Facebook pages. The theory of the sniper. The most trospid of the incident was, however, the theory promoted by Elon Musk about the possible intervention of a sniper. Theory in which Spacex insisted throughout the official investigation of the incident, According to documentation that has just become public. Although Spacex engineers shuffled hundreds of hypotheses, Elon Musk promoted the idea of ​​an external sabotage: the shot of a sniper. It sounds crazy, but Musk saw the two main indications convincing: the break began about 60 meters high, on the side of the rocket that looked towards a building leased by its main competitor, United Launch Alliance. An alleged ULA shot. The ULA building, a joint business of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, was a kilometer and a half of the Spacex launch platform, a reasonable distance for a sniper. Put to believe, even seemed to see a flash on the roof of the building, coinciding with the time it would take a projectile to reach the rocket. The rivalry between SpaceX and ULA had then reached its peak. Ul still dominated the market of military and government launches, the most lucrative, but Spacex had just won a battle in the courts to compete for these contracts. However, accusing a sabotage competitor without evidence was a serious accusation. The FBI came to intervene. Azuzados by Musk, Spacex engineers thoroughly investigated the sniper theory. They tried to access the ULA roof and performed shooting against pressurized helium tanks to see if they exploited similarly to Falcon 9. The insistence was such that the Federal Aviation Administration had to intervene with a letter that denied the involvement of third parties. There was no sniper, although, as the documentation of the journalist Eric Berger has revealed For your book Recentryeven the FBI investigated the case. The federal agents reviewed the Spacex analysis and the video material, but they concluded that “there were no indications that suggested that sabotage or any other criminal activity played a role in the explosion of Falcon 9”. With this, FAA considered the closed matter. What happened then. The real cause of the rocket explosion and, with it, of the AMOS-6 satellite, was the process of loading propellents. In its eagerness to accelerate the refueling process with super -refrained liquid oxygen, the Spacex equipment filled the helium tanks too fast, heating the aluminum coating of the rocket and causing its deformation and rupture. Spacex would put the hair of Punta to the NASA security office for its procedure “Load and Go”, which proposed to raise astronauts to the rocket before loading fuel. Over time, not only would demonstrate the reliability of Falcon 9 (Last year he completed 137 launches against the five of ULA), but would become the main supplier of NASA manned releases to the International Space Station. Images | And combinator, Uslaunchreport, CNN Money (YouTube) In Xataka | Texas has a new city. Until a few days ago, it was only Spacex’s base in Boca Chica

Can a gorilla win 100 men? The dilemma that is obsessively consuming to the Internet

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Everyone on the Internet wonders who would win in a battle between a gorilla and one hundred men. It is a mere mental riddle without correct response, but formulated to open the discussion. That is why it has become THE MEME OF THE MOMENTand all types of users are facing the enigma from multiple approaches, from biological to ethical. The important thing, as they say, is not the answer, but the way to get to it. A war for all. The meme is very simple: it consists of discussing who would win in a battle under those conditions, a question that has been viralized at the end of April this year. Tiktokers like Tredouglass, Lov3Charlee either Rationniper They have opined on the subject (most of the time in favor of the gorilla), although the thing became a Global phenomenon When users with millions of followers like Elon Musk and Mr. Beast tweet on the subject. Origins of the meme. In February 2022, the Tiktoker YURI5KPT2 He wondered who would win in the battle. It was a first advance of the subject, which had no continuity, although it generated a remarkable response, more than three thousand comments. Previously, in 2020 in Reddit it had been discussed In a thread With some impact on media specialized in nature. Legendary clashes. Beyond, hypothetical clashes between unequal power factions make up a classic debate exercise. The asymmetry between combatants has always been Part of classical military theory. Where does it come from, if not, the legendary confrontation between David and Goliath. On the other hand, and already in more recent times, the asymmetric confrontation has become classic meme of war games, and users of titles such as’ Age of Empires’ or ‘Ultimate Epic Simulator‘(This in pure fantasy contexts) generate fighting with the editors who have millions of reproductions on YouTube. Some of them are that excessive: And of course, the meme has continued to grow, completely out of control, with street interviews, Animations, experiments with AI, simulations and innumerable opinion videos on the subject. Why do we like a anger. There is a reason for us to like this meme, comment, discuss it and contribute our opinion. Apart from that as gregarious creatures, there is nothing that we like more than taking sides for a side and argue for discussingthis confrontation has some symbolic, and there are more transcendent conflicts. The clash is also that of the brute and individual force against cooperation and strategy, in the same way that also symbolizes the eternal conflict of savagery against civilizationa debate that we love to resume and take to the extreme. Again, the Memes helping us to explain ourselves Simple and humorously. There are evolutionary psychologists who affirm in Media like Rolling Out that “these hypothetical discussions are modern expressions of ancient survival planning behaviors that once helped our ancestors develop in dangerous environments.” That is, the circle closes: we plan and discuss how to face the gorilla in a theoretical framework … just in case we have to do it in the real world. Yes, but … who would win? The time comes to give the response to the unknown. Many experts They seem to coincide In a front fight, the gorilla would undoubtedly win. However, if the man is on the cusp of the evolutionary pyramid is for something: he would very possibly find the way to manage to win, even if he improvise weapons to attack. A gorilla is between four and ten times stronger than a humanwhich makes it an unstoppable muscle mass with bare hands. Source | Joshua J. Cotten / Bao Menglong In Xataka | Eight years later, Spain is still hooked to see Simón Pérez and Silvia Charro shattered life live

NASA has just left ESA with Artemis

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He Historic Tijeretazo to NASA On the part of the United States government has a clear victim: Europe. If Congress approves the cuts proposed by the Trump administration, the European Space Agency, one of NASA’s most faithful partners, will remain alone and with invoices payable in the most important projects that it shares with its American homologue. Context. The budget proposal of the White House for fiscal year 2026 includes a brutal cut for NASA, which would go from 24,800 to 18.8 billion dollars of annual budget, 25% less. The cuts are particularly primed With NASA’s scientific branchbut the United States lunar program and its partners have also placed upside down. He Artemis programthat Trump himself promoted in his first term, will remain in the hands of the private industry from 2027 with the cancellation of the SLS rocket and the Orion ship. The Lunar Gateway station, in which several international partners participate, has completely discarded. A slap to ESA. Although It was seen coming For a long time (Boeing herself He warned it to its employees at the beginning of the year), the cancellation of the SLS/ORION system has direct consequences for the European Space Agency. ESA is responsible for the European Service Module (ESM) that provides propulsion, energy and life support to the Orion ship and its crew. The first ESM was used in the mission without crew Artemis I. Two others will be used in the Artemis II and III missions. But in February 2021, ESA awarded Airbus a contract of 650 million euros for the manufacture of three additional modules (ESM-4, 5 and 6), which will now run out of use. The varapalo does not end there. Lunar Gateway was not an exclusively American project either. The Lunar Orbital Stationwhose launch was planned for 2027, was NASA designed In collaboration with the space agencies of Japan (Jaxa), Canada (CSA), United Arab Emirates and ESA itself. Of course, many of its components were in an advanced phase of development or manufacturing. Thales Alenia Space manufactured in Turin (Italy) The primary structure of the halo module, which was already in the United States for its final equipment. In addition, the ESA had in a test phase a model of Lunar I-Hab (A habitat type module developed in collaboration with Jaxa), and in the preliminary design phase the refueling and telecommunications module Lunar View (formerly known as Esprit). And the astronauts? These multimillionaires European investments, now in the air, They were currency to guarantee the presence of Astronauts of the ESA in the missions to the moon. The architecture of lunar missions will change completely from Artemis III. Taking into account that Artemis I was a mission without crew, that Artemis II has a Canadian on board as a non-American crewman, and that Artemis III is designed for NASA They step on the moon againIt is not clear at what time we will see Europeans step on the moon. After certifying for extravehicular activities at the International Space Station, Pablo Álvarez, The Spanish astronaut of the ESAhe planned to start his lunar training to use the future Gateway station. NASA looks at the private sector. The justification of the White House for this drastic change of course is “to return to the moon before China and put a man on Mars” (the references to place the first woman in Mars were eliminated from the NASA website as part of the measures to erase the initiatives of diversity, equity and inclusion). To do this, It will allocate 7,000 million dollars to a lunar program focused on “commercial systems that allow more ambitious later lunar missions.” All looks point to the Spacex Starship system and the Blue Moon Moon Module from Blue Origin. In addition, they reserve $ 1 billion to start a new manned program to Mars, Following Elon Musk’s recommendationswhose vision shares the future NASA administrator and also Jared Isaacman businessman. An approach that prioritizes the speed and reduction of costs through the private sector, leaving aside the traditional international collaboration models based on contributions from other agencies. Who looks at? The general director of ESA, Josef Aschbacher, has responded with the expected diplomacy. In A statementHe explains that follow -up meetings with NASA are already being held to evaluate the impact of cuts. “From here at the end of the year, ESA will celebrate the Council meeting at the ministerial level, determined to further enhance the role of Europe in space,” says Aschbacher, adding NASA to NASA in a subtle polish that that “undertakes not only to be a reliable partner, but also robust and desirable.” Will perhaps open a closer collaboration with China? China, of course, is willing to become “the new NASA.” Ha Open to international collaborators The tianwen-3 mission of marcian samples and the Robotic mission Chang-e’8 to the moon, perhaps aware that the power vacuum that the US leaves can be filled with a greater opening. Image | Halo Module Structure of the Lunar Gateway Station (Tales, ESA) In Xataka | Boeing has lost: NASA will cancel the SLS rocket and look for a cheaper alternative to colonize the moon and Mars

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